PLA drones deliver food to the soliders stationing at the frontline as troops massing along China India border

[beijingwalker]

Why you guys fool yourself with these comedy videos?

How much distance and weight a drone can carry?

How many men can these drones cater?

The drone has dropped the food in the video, his safe is it.

Lastly for you guys acting like clowns when will you stop these comedy videos. People are laughing at global times propaganda.

Indians tries to discredit anything which they don't have, you are falling behind so far and the world and new tech move ahead so fast.

 

[patero]

PLA is massing tens of thousands troops along the Chinese Indian border over 4500m above the sea level, drones are delivering food to the soliders stationing at the frontlines

The video appears to show soldiers unloading food from trucks in large plastic bins, contrary to the title of the video. The drones seen earlier in the video are not shown actually delivering the food, just edits of them dropping packages from the sky. Wouldn't the packages just splat on impact if dropped from the sky?

 

[beijingwalker]

The video appears to show soldiers unloading food from trucks in large plastic bins, contrary to the title of the video. The drones seen earlier in the video are not shown actually delivering the food, just edits of them dropping packages from the sky. Wouldn't the packages just splat on impact if dropped from the sky?

In the video the food truck driver reported on the radio that road ahead was damaged and becomes impassable and the convoy was instructed to use drones to deliver food and water to the troops on the frontline.
The food being delivered by the drones are packed food and water, not the regular food shown in the end of the video, the regular food was delivered by PLA special kitchen trucks.

 

[khansaheeb]

Careful those drones might be targeted by Indian troops since they don't get food.

I can imagine thousands of Indian soldiers running around the mountains chasing the drones begging for food.

 

[beijingwalker]

The foods being dropped by the drones are most likely something like this

 

[khansaheeb]

Winter's coming, poorly supplied Indian troops in that harsh region will starve to death lacking food or freeze to death lacking winter clothes. We don't have to do anything, let the environment do the job.

You Chinese hit the Indians where it hurts the most , their rumbling stomach, really, really bad!

 

[khansaheeb]

They stand no chance against us, no matter what they try to do, the gap is just unbridgeable.

Exactly what Stalin said about Hitler's plans.

 

[khansaheeb]

Why you guys fool yourself with these comedy videos?

How much distance and weight a drone can carry?

How many men can these drones cater?

The drone has dropped the food in the video, his safe is it.

Lastly for you guys acting like clowns when will you stop these comedy videos. People are laughing at global times propaganda.

Max take-off weight

360kg

Payload

120kg

 

[Figaro]

Max take-off weight

360kg

Payload

120kg

Meanwhile Indian drones keep crashing on the Chinese border. I would say these drones are of low quality but since they are not made domestically by India, the only problem is the incompetence of the Indian operators. Imagine how these drones would perform in actual combat lmao.

China claims Indian drone 'invaded airspace in crash'

China is "strongly dissatisfied" at what it calls an "invasion of airspace", report state media.

www.bbc.com

Chinese military protests 'intrusion' of an Indian drone

We strongly express our dissatisfaction and opposition," Xinhua news agency cited the deputy director of the army's western theatre combat bureau as saying.

economictimes.indiatimes.com

 

[khansaheeb]

Why you guys fool yourself with these comedy videos?

How much distance and weight a drone can carry?

How many men can these drones cater?

The drone has dropped the food in the video, his safe is it.

Lastly for you guys acting like clowns when will you stop these comedy videos. People are laughing at global times propaganda.

When you have no reason and you realise how weak Indians are you resort petty insults, how sad and pitiful you are.

 

[Dungeness]

Why you guys fool yourself with these comedy videos?

How much distance and weight a drone can carry?

How many men can these drones cater?

The drone has dropped the food in the video, his safe is it.

Lastly for you guys acting like clowns when will you stop these comedy videos. People are laughing at global times propaganda.

Just in case you have a misconception about the term "drone", here is an example what Chinese farmers are using: Payload 30 kg, Price $7K. Don't know how many soldiers 30 kg Naan can feed.

https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=624575317352&ali_refid=a3_430750_1006:1340170175:N:EuO3Ac4Q0NPdMsBUvVt6xHM3eC63TwPd:6b7ded7fd9965b887014ee339d5ab00f&ali_trackid=1_6b7ded7fd9965b887014ee339d5ab00f&spm=a21wu.10013406.0.0

 

[patero]

In the video the food truck driver reported on the radio that road ahead was damaged and becomes impassable and the convoy was instructed to use drones to deliver food and water to the troops on the frontline.
The food being delivered by the drones are packed food and water, not the regular food shown in the end of the video, the regular food was delivered by PLA special kitchen trucks.

Its a badly edited clip, it finished with the soldiers unpacking large bins of food from trucks, then distributing them and eating.

The food being loaded into the drones didn't look like MREs (or whatever the PLA calls them), and the water bottles wouldn't survive a fall without bursting open. Why not show the drones landing first delivering their packages.

The whole idea seems a bit gimmicky, wouldn't regular air-drops via fixed-wing or helicopters in these situations be more practical. Separating food supplies into such small packages would be very inefficient and require an enormous number of drones and/or multiple drops to achieve what a single air-drop with pallets could do.

 

[Figaro]

Its a badly edited clip, it finished with the soldiers unpacking large bins of food from trucks, then distributing them and eating.

The food being loaded into the drones didn't look like MREs (or whatever the PLA calls them), and the water bottles wouldn't survive a fall without bursting open. Why not show the drones landing first delivering their packages.

The whole idea seems a bit gimmicky, wouldn't regular air-drops via fixed-wing or helicopters in these situations be more practical. Separating food supplies into such small packages would be very inefficient and require an enormous number of drones and/or multiple drops to achieve what a single air-drop with pallets could do.

I think the drones delivered them to a drop off point. Then the trucks came in, picked up the food, and delivered them to the soldiers. But I am also surprised how the food would survive being intact being dropped at speeds like that without parachutes.

 

[patero]

I think the drones delivered them to a drop off point. Then the trucks came in, picked up the food, and delivered them to the soldiers. But I am also surprised how the food would survive being intact being dropped at speeds like that without parachutes.

That's an awful lot of double handling. Separating the food into small packages, load into drones, deliver the packages then re-amalgamate the packages into larger bins to load into trucks.

Also there would need to be a very large amount of drones which will also require time to assemble and probably recharge. It's difficult to see this as a practical war-time solution, logistics is all about simplification.

 

[beijingwalker]

The whole idea seems a bit gimmicky, wouldn't regular air-drops via fixed-wing or helicopters in these situations be more practical.

For small combat units, helicopters are not worth it, China can mass produce drones in millions and they are vrey cheap.